Chat Support for BI
Hi BI Community,
We are extremely pleased to announce the introduction of Chat Support for BI. Chat Support is one of our Real Time support offerings that is available to our BI customers. Customers who use Chat Support are instantly connected with an experienced SAP BI Support Engineer. The SAP BI Support Engineer will provide immediate assistance in order to help resolve your BI support issue during the Chat session.
This initiative has started as a pilot for BI Product Support and has been rolled out to three Topic areas:
BI Administration (Component BI-BIP-ADM)
All security issues and issues pertaining to Rights and Permissions
Issues dealing with Encyclopedia
Problems with the various servers in the Business Intelligence Platform
BW Publisher
Security Viewer
All Enterprise printing and export issues with Crystal Reports on the Server
Crystal Report Refresh issues in Enterprise
Issues with Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) consumption in a Crystal report
OpenDocument issues with Crystal reports.
BI Publications (Component BI-BIP-PUB)
General scheduling, publishing, and exporting issues with publications
Issues with publications where the source document is a Crystal Report and the report itself fails to schedule.
BI Dashboards (Components BI-RA-XL*)
All Xcelsius/Dashboard install, design and refresh issues
Issues publishing Xcelsius/Dashboard models to Infoview, .swf, .ppt, etc.
Issues related to Query as a Web Service (QaaWS), Live Office, and BW consumption in an Xcelsius/Dashboard model.
Issues with Xcelsius/Dashboard and BI Widgets
Using the Incident Wizard, you will see a new “Chat Support” button when you select one of these components (BI-BIP-ADM, BI-BIP-PUB, BI-RA-XL)
Selecting the button will connect you to an SAP BI Support Engineer via a Chat session. To keep track of your chat, the SAP BI Support Engineer will create an incident on your behalf.
This Chat Button will only appear:
· For the BI Components areas mentioned above
· If a SAP BI Support Engineer is ready to take your Chat.
We have SAP BI Support Engineers online globally during the working week to assist you via Chat. For further details on how this works, reference SAP Knowledge Base 2213344 – How to start a chat with SAP Support which provides a video demonstration.
I encourage you to give this a try in order to get a faster resolution to your BI Product support topics.
Any feedback you have is very welcome. The best way to provide it is via the Chat, when prompted at the end of the session. Your feedback will help us to improve the Chat Support experience for the roll-out of this service across all of the BI components.
Thanks and regards,
Mike Griffiths
Global Director, SAP BI Product Support
awesome. that's something that was needed.
Thank you.
That's a great idea
great initiative!
Who's working week is this? Is it timezone specific?
Regards
Colleen
Hi Colleen,
We have the whole global team of SAP BI Support Engineers available, so from Monday to Friday we have Chat covered 24 hours a day. It's only at the weekend that we revert back to incidents only for the Very High Issues
Regards,
Mike
great initiative, would be grateful if starts for other areas too
Great. It will be very helpful. Hope there is no longer delay in chat room.
Hi Mike,
are there plans to extend this service to more BI component teams? I currently have an issue in BI-BIP-AUT which might be more easily resolved with a chat.
Hi Mark,
We certainly do have plans to roll this out across all of the BI component areas. I don't want to commit a date yet though as we want to make sure we have learned sufficiently through the pilot before rolling out across all teams.
Thanks,
Mike
Dear Mike,
This is indeed a great initiative and would help us as Customers in a better way. I did try this feature, in BI-BIP-ADM component, sadly no one responded to me for nearly 15 - 20 minutes and I had to create an incident in the end.
Is the feature still not fully functional ?
Hi Sarvjot,
I'm certainly sorry to hear that you didn't make a Chat connection with us but can reassure you we are fully functional with our Chat sessions with customers.
Would you mind if we made contact with you to discuss further as we have a log of every connection made to us over Chat and we cannot trace your request so we would like to investigate further.
Please could you send us your contact details to sap_bi_support_info@sap.com so we could discuss further?
Thanks,
Mike
Great initiative.
Love this - Have been waiting anxiously for it ! 🙂